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Topic: Could have used it at the supermarket (Read 7815 times)

Kelvar

I didn't, it didn't seem worth being held up, but I could have. It happened at the checkout. The cashier had just run all my stuff through and told me the total, then the woman behind me audibly gasped and said to the man with her "So much money! You could feed a family for that!"

The silly thing is that's exactly what I was doing. Most of the food is for when my fiance's parents come to stay with us (no matter what they say I know they eat nearly twice what we do, so to my mind it's more like feeding 6 people than 4).

But even if I was the single student I looked like (jeans, uni hoodie, headphones, backpack) who's to say I didn't live in a house where we take turns shopping and cook/eat together? Or maybe I was doing a favour for a relative or...so many reasons I can think of a seemingly young person would be buying a 'family' shop alone.

(Edit: here I am commenting on someone else's assumption when I realise I called the couple husband and wife when I have no idea what their relationship is!)

I didn't, it didn't seem worth being held up, but I could have. It happened at the checkout. The cashier had just run all my stuff through and told me the total, then the woman behind me audibly gasped and said to the man with her "So much money! You could feed a family for that!"

That's hysterical, at the grocery store. Who can tell by looking at anyone that they don't have a family to feed?

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I didn't, it didn't seem worth being held up, but I could have. It happened at the checkout. The cashier had just run all my stuff through and told me the total, then the woman behind me audibly gasped and said to the man with her "So much money! You could feed a family for that!"

I suppose possibly Kelvar had picked up some caviar as an appetizer, and the gasp was at the price of an ounce of best beluga....

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Jan74

Unless your shopping was all beer, chips, and magazines, it should be obvious that you are indeed feeding a family with the money - whether it is a family of 1, 2, or 6. All that would change in that case is how soon you have to shop again.

Unless your shopping was all beer, chips, and magazines, it should be obvious that you are indeed feeding a family with the money - whether it is a family of 1, 2, or 6. All that would change in that case is how soon you have to shop again.

So true. And even if the OP were just buying a load of beer, chips, and magazines.....how do they know it's not for the company picnic?

Jan74

So true. And even if the OP were just buying a load of beer, chips, and magazines.....how do they know it's not for the company picnic?

I'd definitely assume party if someone were spending a lot of cash on stuff like that, but at least it would justify the "You could feed a family!" exclamation - as in, the money you'll spend on that one day is enough for a month's groceries for a family.

Unless your shopping was all beer, chips, and magazines, it should be obvious that you are indeed feeding a family with the money - whether it is a family of 1, 2, or 6. All that would change in that case is how soon you have to shop again.

Small threadjack, but that made me fantasize about just buying beer, chips and magazines. No veggies, no tp, no cleaning stuff. Forget special vitamins for kid, biola for the dog, meat meat meat for the husband! All the dumb things needed to keep 3 people and a huge dog going can be forgotten! Just beer, chips and magazines! Yeah!

*sigh*

No? I'll go do the normal groceryshopping then.

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Just because someone is offended that does not mean they are in the right.

I didn't, it didn't seem worth being held up, but I could have. It happened at the checkout. The cashier had just run all my stuff through and told me the total, then the woman behind me audibly gasped and said to the man with her "So much money! You could feed a family for that!"

That's hysterical, at the grocery store. Who can tell by looking at anyone that they don't have a family to feed?

Because clearly, if the whole family needs food, the whole family should help with the grocery shopping It is just not possible that one person could buy food for *gasp* other people!